Sorry to get everyone back to the course (well, the course I want to go
through.... :-) - but my questions was not whether or not a small ISP /
content provider should implement BGP.
The issue is that currently I can't take part of my PI, which I divide into
small PAs for my customers, and use it for PIs for my customers.
However, I would like to have my own PI specially intended for fragmentation
to PIs, not to PAs. The reason to difrentiate is that the net-work is
diferent here. The maintenance is diferent (I don't really advertise the
addresses using my AS, though I'm a transient for these addresses). If I'll
have a larger block, it would be easier to maintain, easier to troubleshoot.
Yes, I do understand that the issue these days is conservation. And yes, it
is understood that our last allocation is not 80% assigned. However, we
cannot take our last /16 and create smaller CIDRs! We think it is wise to
diferentiate our BGP customers from our regular customers - and the differ
would they be - the better. The best differentiation is provide the BGP
customers with a diferent block.
I'm sorry to add here the business issues, but I believe that a large chunk
of the LIRs are ISPs, so some of them might find it interesting.
Regards,
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Yuval Shchory
Projects Manager
NetVision's Corporate Technical Support Department
eMail: syuval(a)netvision.net.il
interFAX: 03-5480255
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